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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of insist.

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Examples

  • United can do us a favour by clinching the title insists West Brom boss Mowbray

    Football.co.uk news feed 2009

  • United can do us a favour by clinching the title insists West Brom boss Mowbray

    Football.co.uk news feed 2009

  • United can do us a favour by clinching the title insists West Brom boss Mowbray

    Football.co.uk news feed 2009

  • I honestly do not understand why Sarah Palin insists that she and her family be treated differently from any other public figure.

    Palin hits back at 'malicious' photo 2009

  • A polite and cheerful man with a buzz cut, Mr. Panarin insists he does not dislike Americans.

    Matthew Yglesias » By Request: The Case for Parliamentarism 2009

  • Sorkin insists it's much more universal and timeless than that, because it's about "an outsider wanting to belong".

    How evil is Facebook? Hadley Freeman 2010

  • He 's engaged in a cyber-feud with his local town supervisor, who Mr. Redlich insists is the instigator, saying: I think he' s borderline obsessed with me.

    Candidates Crowd Stage Erica Orden 2010

  • He says he's trying to champion the cause of accuracy in online reporting in a lawsuit against Deadspin that he insists is anything but frivolous.

    Sean Salisbury aims to move on after admission 2010

  • Listening between the lines, one senses he faces an uphill battle to convince others of his long-term view, which he insists is "not hopelessly pessimistic."

    Technology = Salvation Holman W. Jenkins Jr. 2010

  • And that, Updike insists, is where the conflict that fuels all narrative finds its origins, in the opposing magnetic forces that work on the mind and the body.

    2009 January « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

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